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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Ronny Jackson- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-08-03

On this date in both 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” had its first profile Ronny Jackson, the former White House Physician and Navy rear admiral who is the U.S. House Representative from Texas’ 13th Congressional District first elected in 2020.



We feel the need to remind everyone that this would be the same Ronny Jackson who gave a glowing review of Donald Trump’s health after he took office, even though he is visibly overweight, refuses to walk anywhere that he can’t ride on a golf cart, allegedly snorts crushed up Adderall to focus, can’t hold up a glass of water with one hand, eats nothing but hamberders and KFC, and Jackson had to formulate a plan to trick Trump into eating cauliflower by the cooks at the White House who mix it in with mashed potatoes. To say nothing of his administration of a test of Trump’s mental faculties and coming out to act like he was the pinnacle of intelligence because he successfully identified a camel.



Ronny Jackson expects us to believe THAT guy is in perfect health, and not to believe our own lying eyes.



But then again, we’re talking about the same Ronny Jackson who throughout his tenure as White House Physician, who nicknamed “The Candyman” because of his willingness to sign off on any and all prescriptions for staffers, allegedly walking down the aisle of Air Force One at points to hand out pills to all the passengers.



Oh, and he was also allegedly drunk. A lot. Per one account, he was so intoxicated on one occasion during the Obama administration that aides could not wake him, had at least one accident attributed to driving while drunk, and that he has an explosive temper that creates a toxic work environment for his subordinates.



These rumors… well, we can’t call them “rumors” anymore as a Pentagon investigation confirmed these things were actually happening… the obvious shortcomings in Ronny Jackson’s character are why it was believed that after Donald Trump decided to reward Jackson for speaking in such over-the-top glowing terms about his health with a nomination to run the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (even though Jackson has never worked in public health, whatsoever, and is highly unqualified), that Ronny Jackson backed off his own nomination. Which made sense, considering the votes to confirm him weren’t there.



And… think about that. The Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education on a tiebreaker vote… but they didn’t think Ronny Jackson had a prayer of getting nominated and being able to do the job.



Anyway, Jackson still was willing to toady for Donald Trump, and rather than get a Cabinet post, instead opted to run for Congress in Texas’ 13th District, which the Cook Partisan Voting Index had listed at the time as a +33 Republican lean. After endorsing Donald Trump’s stupid idea for a border wall, he narrowly won the GOP nomination with 55% of the vote, and coasted to victory to take his drunken, temperamental act to the Capitol, fitting in perfectly as a propagandist amateur drug dealer with a drinking problem among the GOP Caucus.



He won reelection to a second term in 2022 with 75% of the vote, and continued to operate in one of the furthest lanes to the right:

So it’s pretty telling to see what rare company much of the above shows Ronny Jackson finds himself in on a lot of these more extreme votes and moments… he’s becoming fast friends with some of the most rabid Trump supporters, and frankly, the white nationalist branch that’s taking over the GOP. Jackson has, predictably, taken his inebriated experience as former White House physician with him to the House, where now he’s diagnosing President Biden from afar, and claiming that he needs a cognitive test.



But our biggest problem with Ronny Jackson isn’t just that utter lack of medical ethics (that seems to be his calling card). No, perhaps the bigger concern was a detail that dropped in April of 2022… during the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, the “tip of the spear” during the attack were domestic terrorists from the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers. And as the press have covered the trials of those charged with seditious conspiracy, they’ve been meticulously detailing what evidence about the attacks drips out in court documents. It’s… really interesting that in the midst of the attack, while the Oath Keepers were busy trying to push past all the barriers, to break all the windows to get in the building… they were oddly also discussing providing “protection” to Jackson.



”Ronnie Jackson (TX) office inside Capitol - he needs OK help. Anyone inside?” texted an unidentified person at 3 p.m., presumably referring to the Oath Keepers as “OK.”



“Hopefully they can help. Dr. Jackson.”



“Dr. Ronnie Jackson - on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him,” a person texted at 3:08 p.m. and included a photo that could not be seen from the court documents.

“He has critical data to protect,” the person added.



At 3:10, Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, responded to the text citing Jackson and instructed a person to “Give him my cell.”

”Ronnie Jackson (TX) office inside Capitol - he needs OK help. Anyone inside?” texted an unidentified person at 3 p.m., presumably referring to the Oath Keepers as “OK.”“Hopefully they can help. Dr. Jackson.”“Dr. Ronnie Jackson - on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him,” a person texted at 3:08 p.m. and included a photo that could not be seen from the court documents.“He has critical data to protect,” the person added.At 3:10, Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, responded to the text citing Jackson and instructed a person to “Give him my cell.”

So while Texas’ 13th Congressional District has a +26 Republican lean and Ronny Jackson is virtually guaranteed re-election if he gets out of any GOP Primary, and he’ll keep winning those because no one dares drag him in the press regarding why he was such a high priority for the Oath Keepers mid-coup, and what the “critical data” he was trying to get to domestic terrorists was.



But if the Department of Justice should decide to ask him about it, that would be great, too.

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